Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An explosion at the Riversiilt Iron and steel works, Wheeling, WajXir, burned and crushed a number of workmen. In a daring attempt made' by three masked bandits to rob the bank of Sevierville, Tenn., the leader of the gang was killed, another was fatally wounded and the third committed suicide rather Hum surrender to a posse of citizens which had surrounded kis hiding place. Nqnr the State fair grounds in Dallas, a trolley ear on the Rapid Transit Street Railway, filled with passengers, collided with an excursion train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road. Of the fortynine passengers on board the street ear, nearly half of them were hurt. Six were seriously injured and three of these cannot live. Mi?ss Bet tie Mcllvuiu, daughter of Jailer Mellvain of Mason County, Ky., frustrated au attempt to escape from the Mason Cdunty jail. Miss Mellvain held the heavy iron entrance door against the prisoners who were trying to force their way out. Charles Shot well, a desperate prisoner, slashed her with a case knife, but she bravely held the door until Deputy Jailer Slack secured his pistol and fired, driving the prisoners back. Several iron bars had been sowed in two, and knives and heavy pieces of irou for weapons had been provided, ready to make a desperate fight for liberty.